tonified
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of tonify
adj
Highly fashionable or stylish; classy; tony.
adj
relying on tone as a determinant of meaning; tonal.
Example Sentences
- "That tonified filly talkin' to me like that. She oughter be took down a peg or two."
- "You can imagine no set of people more polished, powdered, tonified and Englified, than they are."
- ""A d—d highfalutin, tonified cuss he is," said Backus as soon as the prospector was out of earshot."
- "Walking the tonified halls of Corrigan, Inc. made her feel like she was wearing a neon-orange sash across her chest that read "Trailer Park Queen – Doesn't Belong.""
- "The accentual nature of H tones was said to be captured by this formal property not obtaining in “pure tone” languages with completely tonified underlying forms."
- "In fact, the claim is inherent in the H vs. ∅ underlying system that only languages that have this kind of opposition (as opposed to completely tonified underlying forms) will have globality."
Inflected Forms
more tonified (comparative)
most tonified (superlative)